Pen-fountain



UNITED STATES PATENT FBIO.

J. S. GUTTS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PEN-FOUNTAIN.

Specicaton of Letters Patent N0. 22,017, dated November 9, 1858.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J. S. CUT'rs, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have made a new and useful Improvement in the Article of a Pen- Fountain for the Purpose of Writing, Drawing, Specifying, &c.

It is so constructed that a very great number of straight lines or common writing marks can be executed without a single dip of the pen in the ink and so arranged that dripping and blotting are utterly impossible. It is adapted to any pen, stick or holder and transferable from one pen to another at the pleasure of the writer and so simple and cheap as to come within the reach of all schools and business departments of life where a pen is needed where hitherto fountain pens could not be introduced for the reason of their very high price, and I do declare the following to be an exact description of the same, referring to drawings, namely.

A, A, represents a common pen handle or stick.

B, B, represents the holder.

C, C, represents an ordinary pen.

D, D, represents the fountain drawn on as to prevent a particle of ink escaping until y the pressure upon the point of the pen by the writer spreads, separates or opens the split in the pen and lets the ink down in exact proportion as desired by pressing the pen, by which the writer can make from three to live rods of straight mark by measurement, or execute from two to four pages of writing on foolscap with but a single dip of the pen or more or less according to the expansion or size lof the fountain.

I do not claim to be the original inventor of a fountain pen; in fact I do not claim a tapering case or fountain, through the apex of which the nibs of the pen may be project-ed and withdrawn7 but I claim- The elastic tubular fountain D, open at both ends and so combined with the pen that the fountain may be filled with ink, through its upper open end by dipping the pen as herein above set forth.

J. S. CUTTS.

In the presence 0f- JOHN FOOT, GEORGE B. REED. 

